A $14 million plan is set to revamp LA\u2019s animal shelters and boost adoptions<\/p>\n
On April 20, the ASPCA and Best Friends Animal Society announced a multi-year $14 million investment with hopes to transform Los Angeles Animal Services and give it a much-needed glow-up. This program is expected to last around three years.<\/p>\n
The effort of this initiative focuses primarily on improving in-shelter care, increasing fostering and adoption, and reducing shelter intake overall. The funding will include over 23 new full-time staff positions. L.A. Animal Services currently has six shelters that hold about 50,000 animals per year.<\/p>\n
Within each year, there are approximately 20,000 emergency calls sent in. Hiring new staff and building up a more secure team will ensure that everyone will be taken care of with more care. Better training will be available, improved medical attention and overall more support.<\/p>\n
The broader outcome is to increase the likelihood of animals leaving the shelter alive. Here, building a model system that other cities can follow.<\/p>\n
Karen Bass, the Mayor of L.A, backs up this plan. She describes the investment as a \u201chistorical Investment.\u201d This is separate from the city\u2019s budget and comes from nonprofit organizations instead.<\/p>\n
In short: fewer animals stuck in cages, more getting second chances, and hopefully a lot more smiley moments with wagging tails and new homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A $14 million plan is set to revamp LA\u2019s animal shelters and boost adoptions On April 20, the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":743550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[244248,237501,1582,276,2961,224,306513,5337,9764],"class_list":["post-743549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-aspca","tag-best-friends-animal-society","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-animal-services","tag-losangeles","tag-mayor-karen-bass"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116443974649300861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}